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by Paul Taylor on September 10, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. geekoncall
    September 10, 2010, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Ahhhh. There just so cute!!!

    • Fatuncle
      September 10, 2010, 8:22 am | # | Reply

      “They’re”

      • Jabberwonky
        September 10, 2010, 11:25 am | #

        There, there…

      • Fatuncle
        September 10, 2010, 1:09 pm | #

        I also roll on the floor and chew rugs. Free matinee Saturdays. Bring the kids!

      • jay Crandall
        September 10, 2010, 2:26 pm | #

        Now now… (Heh heh)

      • dakabn
        September 10, 2010, 4:02 pm | #

        WOW, grammar nazis…. seriously! LOL CHILL!

      • Ed Rhodes
        June 21, 2012, 4:09 am | #

        All we have here is printed words with which to make our opinions known. Therefore, it’s important to use the RIGHT printed words to avoid confusion.

        That you can reason out that the poster should have said “they’re” as opposed to “there” does not make using “there” any less wrong. Maybe if people had it explained to them more often, they’d stop making that elementary mistake.

        BTW, a “grammer nazi” would be chastising the person for using the wrong word and making nasty comments about their upbringing. Not just correcting the word.

  2. NicolasA
    September 10, 2010, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Well, now’s the moment to go : ‘Aaaw, shucks!’ girls!

  3. jwhouk
    September 10, 2010, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Very cute… but is Monica trying to say something there?

    • NOTDilbert
      September 10, 2010, 2:22 am | # | Reply

      Like “Ow ow ow please quit sqeezing my hand so hard!”

  4. Jim
    September 10, 2010, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Wonderful full-page shot , and the girls looking at the positive side of the encounter .

  5. TlalocW
    September 10, 2010, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    There. Right there. Monica’s rockin’ the new do.

    • Biker Matt
      September 10, 2010, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      I gotta agree. That’s the best display for her hair I’ve seen since she got it cut.

      • hewolf
        September 10, 2010, 1:01 am | #

        Rockin? Yes… Still think it needs to be a bit longer though. If it weren’t for her chest, she’d look like a guy with that cut. *pouts*

      • Fairportfan
        September 10, 2010, 1:28 am | #

        Not much.

      • NOTDilbert
        September 10, 2010, 2:23 am | #

        Too bad ther wasn’t a shot of the black catsuit. 😉

      • txmystic
        September 10, 2010, 9:26 am | #

        Slick!

      • SoWhyMe
        September 10, 2010, 2:06 am | #

        Oh, I don’t know. There is her makeup, small waist with large hips, tight pants with no “package” buldge, no facial shadow, no Adam’s apple.

        Come to think of it I don’t have a visible Adam’s apple either, though, so that may not mean much.

    • Julie
      September 10, 2010, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      Agreed. She looks downright sexy in this image. 😀

      • Fatuncle
        September 12, 2010, 1:36 pm | #

        I find that most pixie cuts look better after they have grown out for a couple of weeks, and get a bit feather-y.

  6. geekoncall
    September 10, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    I think I’m seeing them in slow motion and hearing a heavy base ballad music in the background.

  7. Fairportfan
    September 10, 2010, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    There’s an old Hollywood joke that ends “Wait! … My agent came all the way up here?”

    I think Shelly is sort of tuning out everything but “Tina’s our friend!”…

    • jwhouk
      September 10, 2010, 6:33 pm | # | Reply

      Not the first time she’s done that. Consider how she dealt with her “little girl”.

  8. ziggy78eog
    September 10, 2010, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Crisis averted.

  9. jordinyc
    September 10, 2010, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Oh gosh golly willikers. Are they going to play in the sandbox now? XD

    • SoWhyMe
      September 10, 2010, 2:08 am | # | Reply

      Many people seeing them hand in hand like that will think they’re off to play in any event.

  10. Little Sister
    September 10, 2010, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Friends are good to have.

    • morven
      September 12, 2010, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      Friends are the best!

  11. SoWhyMe
    September 10, 2010, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    That’s it? That’s what they took from the encounter?

    One thing I’ve never seen portrayed in this series is one of those all night talk sessions I’ve heard people have to really get to know each other. All they ever seem to do when they get together is get drunk and dance. Well, that and save the world, but still. Otherwise they’re all off doing their own things. They all seem to have only a very superficial relationship with each other.

    • Erika
      September 10, 2010, 2:27 am | # | Reply

      Go read “Something Positive” if you want a text-heavy comic full of conversation.

      • SoWhyMe
        September 10, 2010, 3:01 am | #

        I’m not saying we need to see the conversations and read some great amount of dialog, just get the gist of the fact they have gab fests from time to time. Something to show they interact on closer terms than just the bar scene.

      • Julie
        September 10, 2010, 7:47 am | #

        You do kind of have a point. I think that when the GGs lived with Monica there were lots of “girly nights” that could have involved interesting conversations, but they were still a little flighty and unaware at the time so it hardly counts.

        That said, Tina has some pretty in depth conversations with Monica and the gang over her coffee making. At this stage, perhaps she recognizes that there’s more than mere acquantance-ship going on, but they haven’t necessarily moved to “close friends” which would involve much more in depth conversation outside the coffee shop.

      • Julie
        September 10, 2010, 7:49 am | #

        I promise I know how to spell acquaintance. I blame my lack of caffeine.

      • eschmenk
        September 10, 2010, 8:08 am | #

        Well, Shelly and Monica had a pretty long conversation after they met Nudge and Amanda spent a whole day with Monica at work after visiting her the evening before. Up to now, Tina said that she didn’t have any friends. We’ll have to see if Monica and Shelly reciprocate and behave differently with Tina than they have in the past.

        I also think that Tina said “friends” because it’s her job to be their friend. In other words, she’s going to be loyal and helpful, but not necessarily so close.

    • Carina
      September 10, 2010, 2:33 am | # | Reply

      Well, the word “friend” got very much devalued in our society – see facebook “friends”.

      But I agree – they might be close, but the comic rarely shows it.

    • Fatuncle
      September 10, 2010, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

      The occasional movie night with Monica and Amanda might qualify. Lots of squealing and giggling there.

      • Fairportfan
        September 10, 2010, 3:04 pm | #

        And the GGs were shown having movie nights in the past, too.

        Though they mostly seemed to watch “Pretty in Pink” in hopes it would come out “right” this time.

        (Ironically, from what i’ve read, the GGs’ preferred end was, in fact, what was originally planned…)

      • Wyvern
        September 10, 2010, 6:32 pm | #

        Ooh, tell, tell. (Why am I even asking this?) Wapsi Square got me to watch Pretty in Pink and I agree with the GGs that Ducky was the better choice. But then, I also have a change I’d have made to The Breakfast Club…

      • jwhouk
        September 10, 2010, 6:34 pm | #

        A change to The Breakfast Club? Like what?

      • Wyvern
        September 11, 2010, 4:59 pm | #

        Remember near the end Molly Ringwald takes Ally Sheedy away for a makeover? It’s a nice feminine bonding scene – but only then does Anthony Michael Hall actually notice Ally is a cute girl. Frankly, it drew a smart character as shallow; I wish he’d appreciated her for how she was. It’s a dissatisfying moment in an otherwise excellent movie.

      • Fairportfan
        September 11, 2010, 8:40 pm | #

        I haven’t seen it, but, apparently, the originally-planned ending was to have the girl wind up with the other guy than she did.

        In Hughes’ original script, Andie and Duckie end up together, but due to pressure, Hughes had to change the ending so that Andie and Blane ended up together. – Pretty in Pink: Encyclopedia

        (I’m sure someone can find the strip with the GGs watching and informing Monica that this time they hope Andie and Ducky wind up together…)

      • Fairportfan
        September 11, 2010, 8:41 pm | #

        Same source:

        In the webcomic Wapsi Square, a character shouts at the screen “Andie you idiot! Duckie was the right choice! He was right in front of you the whole time!”

      • Artemisia
        September 12, 2010, 12:02 pm | #

        Shoot Just realised how much that says about Jin’s personality. Life must be like a movie to her. You keep telling yourself that if you watch it enough it has to turn out right, but it just goes around and the same things happen over and over again with the same consequences.

      • Linux Learner
        November 19, 2010, 5:22 am | #

        Artemisia, consider this: Jin’s life HAS started over some 56 times. And each time things have gone very much the same way, and yet this time she FINALLY got a different ending.

  12. Shadow
    September 10, 2010, 4:08 am | # | Reply

    excellent work on this page, Paul

    still getting used to Monica’s new look but it’s well constructed and suits the character so well

    as always, love Shelly’s look but would be interested in seeing her with long hair again -just out of personal preference 😉

    thanks as always, mate, for all the excellent work 🙂

    • SoWhyMe
      September 10, 2010, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

      Quite true, Since I ragged on Paul’s drawing the other day, it’s only fair I echo your sentiments on this page. Excellent work!

  13. Geordie79
    September 10, 2010, 7:13 am | # | Reply

    Well, if that isn’t a car-crash-causing sight right there. 🙂

    • jwhouk
      September 10, 2010, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t be the first time.

  14. Ekio
    September 10, 2010, 7:26 am | # | Reply

    Shelly seems to just be glazing over the whole event and Monica’s eyes seem to say so. So while the page could have a lot of dialog between them vocally it doesn’t need it. ^-^
    *puts on her captain obvious cape and runs away*

  15. eschmenk
    September 10, 2010, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    I was a little worried that we would discover that Tina had read what Shelly and Monica were thinking about each other from their auras. In other words, Shelly hated Monica’s haircut and Monica was worried about Shelly’s relationship, but both had hidden it so as to not hurt the other’s feelings. I’m not seeing anything to support that, though. I still think Tina was reading what they pushed out of their own minds.

    • txmystic
      September 10, 2010, 9:57 am | # | Reply

      Yes, I think it was their own insecurities coming out in their auras. But they look all better now…

    • MerchManDan
      September 10, 2010, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

      I dunno, the “Shelly dislikes Mon’s haircut/Mon is unsure about Shelly’s relationship” theory makes sense to me, despite the lack of direct evidence thereof.

  16. illiad
    September 10, 2010, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    hmmm, have a look at the strips from 5 or 6 years ago for all the chatty stuff…. 🙂

  17. illiad
    September 10, 2010, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    eschmenk is right… if you can read body language well, you dont need the aura to know… this comic is limited in what can be shown, unlike RL… :p

    • SoWhyMe
      September 10, 2010, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, but it’s still superficial chatty stuff.

      • SoWhyMe
        September 10, 2010, 6:41 pm | #

        Opps, that should have gone with the post just above this one.

  18. txmystic
    September 10, 2010, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    Damn, they both look good…

  19. jayessell
    September 10, 2010, 11:03 am | # | Reply

    So that’s how Monica can scarf down
    tubs of ice cream without consequences.

    Judging from this illustration, she has no internal organs!

    • SoWhyMe
      September 10, 2010, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

      Seems like it, but what there is must be really small. Especially the lower intestines. The food must go practically straight through, again explaining why she doesn’t gain weight. She must take frequent bathroom breaks, however. Though we have recently seen that her stomach can expand quite a bit to hold it for a while at least.

      Yes, yes, I know, it’s a cartoon and her form, as drawn, is a charicature. Just having a bit of fun with the body as shown.

      • Biker Matt
        September 11, 2010, 9:25 pm | #

        Sure she gains weight! It’s just all in the chest! (Which explains her complaints about “shrinking bras”)

  20. kingklash
    September 10, 2010, 11:40 am | # | Reply

    Like the saying goes:
    A True Friend is someone who knows everything about you
    And likes you anyway.

    • Fatuncle
      September 10, 2010, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

      I thought that was “… and will help you dispose of the bodies.”

      • SoWhyMe
        September 10, 2010, 6:43 pm | #

        No, that’s your mob-connected friend.

      • NOTDilbert
        September 10, 2010, 9:58 pm | #

        It actually goes: “a friend will help you move. A real friend will help you move a body.”

    • Fairportfan
      September 10, 2010, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

      I forget where i saw it – hope it wasn’t here – but Oscar Wilde is supposed to have said that a true friend stabs you in the front…

      • Julie
        September 10, 2010, 4:11 pm | #

        Well, whether or not you originally saw it here, you’ll have to decide; however, eschmenk posted that quote in the comments on yesterday’s comic. 🙂

      • SoWhyMe
        September 10, 2010, 6:47 pm | #

        You know, I’ll bet even Oscar Wilde got it from somewhere else as well. Et tu Brute?

      • Fairportfan
        September 11, 2010, 12:51 am | #

        ooops

  21. valis_kr3
    September 10, 2010, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

    I love Monica’s news look.

  22. eschmenk
    September 10, 2010, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

    It’s probably a good thing that Tina sells coffee and not used cars. Can you imagine?

    “Hello. My name is Tina. You look like you might be interested in this car. YOU WOULD BE A FOOL TO MISS OUT ON SUCH A GREAT DEAL! … Oh, excuse me! The thing is, I feel obligated to be honest to my customers and that wasn’t really me talking, anyway. You see, I can read auras. That was really your aura talking, not me. Hmm. It seems to me that you are looking for a car and are subconsciously worried about missing out on a good deal. Well, that’s certainly understandable. Fortunately, I have something you might like even better over here…”

    • SoWhyMe
      September 10, 2010, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

      Oh yeah, she’d make a mint in sales, no matter the product. That is, if she didn’t disclose the aura ability and could control her initial reaction better..

      If two really good aura readers met, I think there would be one of three outcomes:

      1) they look at one another for a few moments, then simply turn and go their separate ways, finding conversation useless since they already know everything about each other.

      2) They look at one another a few moments, then both become wide-eyed and launch into each other, fists and feet, tooth and claw.

      3) They look at one another a few moments and their heads explode.

      • Fairportfan
        September 11, 2010, 8:20 pm | #

        Your #1 reminds me of the story (i’ve heard it told of Miyamoto Musashi) of two great swordsmen who met for the first time, face to face, in the middle of a narrow footbridge over a wide and deep stream.

        They stood there without moving perceptibly for over an hour, then silently turned, went back to shore, and each sought out other bridges in opposite directions.

  23. August
    September 10, 2010, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    Wow. How…pointless. Farewell, forum dwellers! Farewell Mr. Taylor! I’m off to the Fourth Dimension!

    • SoWhyMe
      September 10, 2010, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

      Of course it’s pointless. It’s a friggin comic, and this is a comic forum! Only the location is real. What sort of a “point” did you expect? This aint rocket surgery. It’s just a place to share random (and probably pointless) thoughts about events and people that don’t actually exist. Meaningless, but fun.

  24. Kit Mayer
    September 11, 2010, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Ahh, B.F.F. (Best Friends Forever) and Monica does look cute with all that hair gone. she reminds me of that short-haired secratary girl that pistol-packin’ police woman was dating back early in the strip (oh, whatzher name…)

  25. jwhouk
    September 11, 2010, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    By the way:

    HAPPY NINTH ANNIVERSARY, WAPSI SQUARE!

  26. Artemisia
    September 11, 2010, 9:49 pm | # | Reply

    Someone said recently that the message of Wapsi is that “a woman is not defined by her bust size” Interesting fact but the current round of America’s Next Top Model has all the quirky girls. A girl who is shunned as a model for being too tall and skinny which she doesn’t work at (high metabolism: Georgette look) and one had a weird reaction from the judges because she has large breasts and a skinny waist… interesting but not necessarily relevant to this page… but interesting

  27. Fairportfan
    September 11, 2010, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

    Is This girl related to Monica?

    • Fairportfan
      September 12, 2010, 5:27 am | # | Reply

      And is this girl related to Kataharine?

  28. Noamuth
    September 12, 2010, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

    Want this as a poster. Want want want. ^.^

    • Fairportfan
      September 12, 2010, 11:02 pm | # | Reply

      Sorta like this?

  29. DrSpooN
    September 13, 2010, 11:13 am | # | Reply

    And there’s the lesbian shot I was fearing….

    While I can see a “shorter” haircut for Monica she has never looked more like a guy than she does now… And I never dreamt that was even possible… Hopefully the hair grows back… I miss how it gave Monica more of a swooping action and a sense of movement (no matter what the style was)

    And Shelley… Well let’s just say I miss the old Shelley that played bass in Fermented Banana….

    I’m not saying women can’t look strong but it’s really getting hard to see them as females…

    Just my .02

    • Paul Taylor
      September 13, 2010, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      Women friends in Latin cultures hold hands. They just do, no extra weight or innuendo. M and Shelly are close friends.

    • Xavienne
      September 13, 2010, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

      My friend Joia and I used to hold hands all the time when we were walking together; didn’t mean anything but that we were friends. When you’re a taller gal like me walking with a shorter gal, it also keeps you in pace with each other. It also comes in handy during icy winters when your friend’s grip on your hand may be the only thing keeping you standing! …or you might both end up on your assets on the ice laughing yourselves silly. 🙂

  30. Xavienne
    September 13, 2010, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

    I love the fact that after the previous moments, the part they come away with is that Tina says they are friends. 🙂 That positive energy is the thing to hang on to!

  31. oak
    October 8, 2010, 10:00 pm | # | Reply

    i loooove the way monica looks here. shelley’s arms always bug me a bit but overall i love the style, especially their legs.

    also – i definitely hold hands with female friends sometimes. it’s fun. and much safer on ice, i agree!

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